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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Bridging Souths: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in Southern Studies, Matthew David Streets
Post-Newtonian dynamics of eccentric, spinning binary black holes and the associated gravitational waveforms, Sashwat Tanay
COVID-19 and Headache-Related Disability, Lauren Thaxter
ROLE OF ASTROCYTIC INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1 IN THE REGULATION OF BEHAVIOR, COGNITION, AND NEUROINFLAMMATION, Brayden Thomas
PERCEPTIONS OF ENGLISH LEARNER SUPPORT PROVIDED BY K-12 LEADERS TO EDUCATORS IN MISSISSIPPI, LaDonna Thomas
The Effect of Pitch Height on Instrument Gender Ratings, Raven Gordon Thompson
Emotional Carry-over in Ethical Decision Making: The Impact of Self-Control and Moral Potentcy, Franklin Faison Tillman
EFFECTS OF WORKING MEMORY AND FATIGUE ON DECISION-MAKING IN PEOPLE WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Dennis John Tirri
Latent Profiles of Young Adults Based on E-Cigarette Outcome Expectancies, Victoria Alicia Torres
The Perceptions of Black Law Students Regarding the Barriers of Access to Public Law Schools Located in the South, Joshua Quinn Tucker
FAIR SHARING of CHANNEL RESOURCES in the COEXISTENCE of HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS, Sudat Tuladhar
The Queer and Trans Ecologies of Shakespeare's Ocean, Elijah Two Bears
3D Reinforced Composite Face Sheets and Functionally Graded Polymeric Foam Cores for Blast and Impact Hazard Mitigation, Suman Babu Ukyam
Preparation, Characterization and In-Vitro Release Studies of ICG-Encapsulated Liposomes, Prateek Uttreja
The Ability of Mississippi School Personnel to Recognize and Act on Internalizing Disorders in Students, Madison Varner
Effects of Heterocycles on Biologically Relevant Molecules, Sajith Manjrake Vijayan
Essays on Migration, Andreas Benjamin Vortisch
Exploring the Standard Model and Beyond using B and D meson decays, John Waite
PERCEPTIONS OF BLACK FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS REGARDING THE IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT PRACTICES AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, DeAnn Handy Walter
Sustained Delivery of Carbon Monoxide (CO) via Organic Co Prodrugs: Pharmacokinetic Studies, Minjia Wang
Achieving Record Photocurrent: Strategies for Harvesting and Utilizing Low Energy Photons in Organic Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics, Jonathon Watson
Optimizing Exposure for Contamination OCD: What Happens When Digust is Specifically Targeted?, Molly E. Wickenhauser
The Impact of Ethnicity Within the Field of Speech-Language Pathology, Maliah Wilkinson
Closing the Opportunity Gap in Mathematics Education, Candies Nicole Winfun-Cook
UNDERSTANDING CLASSROOM ENGAGEMENT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, Jason W. Wood
APPLICATION OF HOT-MELT EXTRUSION AND FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING ON SCREENING FILAMENTS AND DEVELOPING DIVERSE DOSAGES, Pengchong Xu
THE COGNITIVE INHIBITORY RESPONSE TO ACUTE EXERCISE WITH AND WITHOUT BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION AND FULL BODY COOLING, Yujiro Yamada
Exploratory Analysis of Effects of Data on Adversarial Perturbations, Hamza Ali Zafar
Face Detection Using Web Images, Chris Zhao
On Ramsey and Gallai-Ramsey numbers of some classes of graphs, Qinghong Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
TOWARDS A NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING PROTEIN STRUCTURE, Niloofar Abolhasani Khaje
Responses of Myxobacteria to Plant-Related Chemosignals Suggests Their Roles in the Rhizobiome, Barbara Iyare Adaikpoh
Computational Modeling of Non-active Functional States of the Cannabinoid Receptor 1 and its Ligands, Ayooluwa Olufunmi Aderibigbe
EPIGENETIC REGULATION IN BREVUNDIMONAS SUBVIBRIOIDES AND COMPARISON WITH THE CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS MODEL, Satish Adhikari
SURFACE AND INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA BETWEEN SOIL AND OIL, Md Firoz Ahmed
RESPONSES OF PREDATORY MYXOBACTERIA TO PREY SIGNALING MOLECULES & FEATURES OF A PSEUDOMONAS PREY AVOIDING PREDATION, Shukria Akbar
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF SALVINORIN-BASED COMPOUNDS FOR THE OPIOID RECEPTORS., Nicholas S. Akins
DEVELOPMENT, OPTIMIZATION, AND IN VITRO CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT ANESTHETIC WOUND PRODUCTS, Alia Alshammari
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF ALKALI-ACTIVATED BINDERS FOR CONSTRUCTION APPLICATIONS, Rami Khalil Al-Sughayer
THIS GARDEN: OYSTERS AND PLACE ALONG FLORIDA'S FORGOTTEN COAST, Annemarie Anderson
Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention to Reduce Ageism in Undergraduate Students in an Entry-level Nutrition Class, Ann Irvin Armstrong
OSTEOPOROSIS KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH COMMUNICATION, AND PREVENTION BEHAVIORS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY AMONG MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS, Kaitlyn Ashley Armstrong
QUANTIFYING MICROBIAL RESISTANCE TO NEMATODE PREDATION, Tyler Bacon
EXPLORING STUDENT PARENT EXPERIENCES WITH UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES, Chelsea Baddley
"No Place in American History": Remembering and Forgetting the Sultana Disaster, Elias John Baker
Prevalence of Hearing Loss in College Students in the United States: A Meta-Analysis, Ashley Barton
SOLUBILITY MEASUREMENTS OF HYDROPHOBIC SOLUTES IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE AND SUBSEQUENT IMPREGNATION INTO PAPER SUBSTRATES FOR SURFACE MODIFICATIONS, Arghavan Beheshtimaal
SEARCH FOR CPT AND LORENTZ INVARIANCE VIOLATION IN THE MUON g-2 EXPERIMENT AT FERMILAB, Meghna Bhattacharya
When Men are the Victims: Factors Affecting Rape Victim Blame & Bystander Aid, Shilpa Boppana
ILLIBERAL INFLUENCES: EXTREME RIGHT-WING SUPPORT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, Jeff Borland
Acceptability, Anticipated Adherence, and Willingness to Begin Interoceptive Exposure: Examination of the Influence of a Values Rationale, Gina Quebedeaux Boullion
Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown
Black Grocers, Black Activism, and the Spaces in Between: Black Grocery Stores during the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Movement, Keon Ahmad Burns
Rap1a Overlaps the AGE/RAGE Signaling Cascade in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Stephanie Burr
An American Pilgrimage: The 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train As Prophetic Social Performance, Cheston M. Bush
"Slums Are Our Most Expensive Luxuries": Little Rock's Metroplan and the Making of the Neoliberal City, 1939-1980, Monica N. Campbell
WHO IS RUNNING AGAINST ME?: THE INFLUENCE OF DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS ON PRIMARY COMPETITION AGAINST BLACK HOUSE INCUMBENTS, Stacy Darel Carter
POLYESTER-PAMAM “JANUS-TYPE” LINEAR-DENDRITIC BLOCKOPOLYMERS (LDBCS) AS NEXT GENERATION BIOMATERIALS, Indika Chandrasiri
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALBUTEROL SULFATE LOADED TRANSDERMAL PATCHES WITH HME COUPLED FDM 3D PRINTING, Bhavana Chivukula
Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of Paleocene-Aged Bauxites from North Mississippi, Timothy Brendan Clark
Manipulations of a Memory Interference Paradigm, Lindsay Kyle Crawford
THE BIGGEST WINNER: HOW LOSS AVERSION AND NEGATIVITY BIAS CAN INCREASE AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION, Austin Cutler
For Country and Company: Consolidating Power through Development and Company Towns in Saudi Arabia, 1947-1969, Andrew Nicholas Czuzak
THE MIDDLE TO HIGH SCHOOL TRANSITION: AN APPLIED RESEARCH STUDY TO IMPROVE AND SUPPORT HIGH SCHOOL READINESS IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS, Robert Davis II
A LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS PREDICTIVE MODELING APPROACH TO PROFILE DIVISION I COLLEGIATE ATHLETES FOR NUTRITION AND RELATIVE ENERGY DEFICIENCY IN SPORT (RED-S) CONCERN, Morgan Delventhal
TOPICS ON APPLICATIONS OF OPTIMIZATION THEORIES ON STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES, Duc Anh Anh Doan
THE AESTHETICS OF REPAIR: THE WAY OF ZEN AND APPRECIATION, Tyler Ellis Dobbs
A VALENCE-BOND OPERATOR ALGEBRA FOR QUANTUM SPIN MODELS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, HUU TRAN DO
DEVELOPMENT OF SITE - SPECIFIC DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS USING HOT MELT EXTRUSION AND FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING 3D PRINTING, NAGIREDDY REDDY DUMPA
TEACHERS PERCEPTIONS OF USING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AS A CATALYST TO DISCUSS SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MISSISSIPPI CLASSROOMS, Shimikqua Ellis
Components of War: How Combat Shapes Political Behavior, Travis W. Endicott
ACOUSTIC BESSEL AND VORTEX BEAMS: FORCES AND REFRACTION, Xudong Fan
THE PERCEPTIONS THAT UM FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE REGARDING THE IMPACT OF CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT ON THEIR SUCCESS AT THE INSTITUTION, Martin B. Fisher
Relational, Linda Flynn
TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS, AND MUSIC CULTURE FROM THE T.A.M.I. SHOW TO THE ROCK FESTIVAL (1964-1969), Xavier Michael Frascogna
The Role of Social Anxiety in Prosocial Behavior Following Exclusion, Hannah Friedman
Gestures of Dissent: Self-fashioning Performance from Southern Women Writers during the Fin de Siécle, Elisa Fuhrken
MASCULINITY AND COHESION IN MINIATURE WARGAMING, Christopher Gage
Explorations of Timbre in Selected Songs from Schubert’s Winterreise, Samuel Clayton Garner
A NATURAL FIT FOR THE NATURAL STATE: THE EMERGENCE OF BLACK POWER ORGANIZATIONS IN ARKANSAS FROM 1968-1975, Maurice D. Gipson
THE EFFECT OF DEONTIC ANGER ON POLITICAL ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRATION AND REDISTRIBUTION, Nichole Gligor
NMR-Based characterization of a glucan isolated from Ganoderma lucidum, Alysia Gonzales
Kindergarten Readiness Through the Lens of Parent Perspective, Ashley Barrows Goralczyk
Student Perceptions of Their Academic Success at Higher Education, Faith-Based Institutions, Amber Nicole Grady
SERVING MOTHERHOOD: ANALYZING THE BALANCE AND JUSTICE OF FOODWORK IN THE LIVES OF WORKING MOMS, Kaitlyn Paige Hall
Traumatic Life Experiences and Their Impact on Factors Pertinent to Leadership Effectiveness in School Principals, Derrick D. Hardaway
Isolation of Marker Compounds from Copaiba Essential Oil and Mimosa Pigra for Quality Evaluation of Dietary Supplements, Mohammed Hawwal
As Close As I Can Get To It, Kathryn Leland Henricks
REMOVAL OF HEAVY METALS FROM WATER USING NATURAL BAUXITE, Hashindra Kumari Herath
Influences of alumina particles on hydroxyl macrostate estimates in a high-speed, reacting flow, Jonathan Herlan
DECREASING DISCIPLINE DISPARITIES AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES: AN APPLIED RESEARCH STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF DEVELOPING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING PRACTICES AMONG TEACHERS AND EQUIPPING STUDENTS WITH ADDED SUPPORTS, Reginald Maurice Herrington
The Meat of the Gothic: Animality and Social Justice in United States Fiction and Film of the Twenty-First Century, Amber Hodge
How do Prey Capture and Simulated Fire Affect Growth and Nutrient Limitation in a Carnivorous Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia alata?, Jalen Christopher Holloway